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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Slot Higgins in for Quinn, Poloncarz for Higgins… BY GEOFF KELLY

WILD, UNSUBSTANTIATED POLITICAL DOMINOES THEORY: Because if you

don’t read stuff like this here, where will you read it? Here’s a chain of events that political observers are chatting about, more or less in temporal narrative order: 1. Jack Quinn, the former congressman and current president of Erie Community College, will soon resign his post. He has to, after a state audit released in January excoriated ECC’s management for lax financial oversight and lavish administrative payroll. So he can save face, some time will be allowed to elapse before he tenders his resignation. Perhaps July, because… 2. By then, Congressman Brian Higgins will have filed a nominating petition for his upcoming re-election, to which he currently has no real opposition. Higgins will then decline the nomination in order to take over as president of ECC, leaving his committee on vacancies to choose another person to take Higgins’s place on the ballot. And his committee on vacancies will choose… 3. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, who has long been interested in going to Congress. By this mechanism he can box out other local pols—Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, for example, and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul—who harbor similar ambitions. 4. The vacancy in the county executive’s office is filled short-term by an appointment by the Erie County Legislature, and the appointee is state Senator Tim Kennedy, whose once icy relationship with Poloncarz and his allies in Democratic Party headquarters seems to have thawed considerably. The case for Kennedy is that, in a special election against, say, Republican Chris Jacobs, he has the fundraising network to be competitive. Kennedy is also a protege of Higgins, so the transaction makes sense. Jacobs has announced that he will run this fall for the Senate seat currently held by Marc Panepinto, but word is his heart is not in that race; his candidacy is the will of state and local GOP leaders, who want very much to take back that seat. If the county executive’s office opens up, Jacobs might change tracks. 5. This, of course, would leave Kennedy’s Senate seat open. Contenders for that vacancy include Assemblyman Mickey Kearns and Higgins aide Chris Fahey, who unsuccessfully sought the seat Kearns holds now, as well as Erie County Legislator Pat Burke.

Perhaps none of this will happen; perhaps some of it will but other paths will open up. One interesting, complicating rumor is this: Political strategist Steve Pigeon, who has been fairly quiet since his house was raided by state and federal investigators last year, will dispatch operatives to carry a separate nominating petition for Higgins, with a different committee on vacancies. If that petition succeeds, Higgins will have to decline that nomination as well, and the alternate committee on vacancies will be able to pick its own candidate to take his place, thus creating competition for Poloncarz.

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Interim DA Mike Flaherty continues to try to burnish his case for keeping the job by seizing or creating headlines wherever he can. First, his office announced the indictment, after eight months, of two men in the death of 16-year-old Avery Gardner, who slammed her head into a low bridge while boating on Ellicott Creek. Flaherty’s former boss and close friend, Frank A. Sedita III, did not pursue charges at the time, though the driver of the boat—Timothy J. Wisniewski, 51, a man of no visible employment—was in possession of and had been consuming both alcohol and marijuana. Sedita may have demurred because Gardner arguably contributed to her own death by standing up in the boat, and by joining Wisniewski and her boyfriend, 18-year-old Gregory G. Green—also indicted, though he was not driving—on the boat in the first place. Flaherty rejected that idea, telling reporters at a press conference, “She is innocent. She did nothing wrong. I would say she is akin to a passenger in a car hit by a drunk driver.” To create and raise his profile as a prosecutor, Flaherty has been holding lots of press conferences; he needs cases that will generate publicity, such as this one, if he is to better his two Democratic opponents for the DA’s post, John Flynn (who has little experience but has the party’s endorsement) and Mark Sacha (who has tons of experience, a reputation for integrity, and no endorsements at all). It’s why he has promised to re-open the case of Barry Moss, killed in December 2013 by a hit-andrun driver—all evidence points to Evans waterfront bar owner Gabriele P. Ballowe—despite the fact that Flaherty was dispatched to ask the grand jury that voted to indict Ballowe to reverse their decision, which they did. Sedita was notoriously gun-shy of cases that weren’t guaranteed wins. In the Moss case, we are told, he may have worried about a prosecutor’s ability to prove Ballowe was driving her car when it struck the victim.

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INTERNATIONAL BUFFALO Michelle Bonn Guideline Medical founder helps medical device manufacturers navigate government regulations BY THOMAS CHRISTY IT’S NOT A NEW CONCEPT that international business is open

wrong. But it’s what I do. It’s what I know. I know where the minefields are and how to make sure my clients avoid them.”

to more companies and products than ever before. If you take the time to mingle among people whose work includes an international component, you’ll realize that you’re just as likely to meet sole proprietors and small business owners as you are someone whose company is traded on a public stock exchange. It’s becoming a necessity for most business owners to at least inquire about and consider the possibilities of global trade for their profession.

The international component to Guideline Medical comes in the form of having mastered a non-international topic: the US Food and Drug Administration. “I have a client in South Africa who manufactures their product in China and desires to sell that product in the United States and Europe,” Bonn says. “The company could have the best new product ever made. However, if they aren’t taking into consideration the FDA regulations and required European standards as early in the process as possible, they won’t be able to sell their product in these markets. The smartest calls I get are from companies in the early stage of their development process. They realize the importance of meeting regulations. It’s these smart companies that realize that compliance and regulations are entwined throughout the entire medical development and production process.

If you’re in business in any way, you have some interaction with the world of government regulations and compliance. If you practice international business, that interaction is even more intense. Finally, if you’re involved internationally in the medical, pharmaceutical, or food industry, compliance and regulations are a way of life. Such is the rarefied air in which Guideline Medical and its founder, Michelle Bonn, operate daily. Nowhere is compliance a more common issue than in the medical product business. Nobody believes that you can invent a new medical device in your basement and start selling it to friends and neighbors as a miracle cure without understanding the necessity of government oversight. The people who invent, make, market, and deliver the things that eventually find their way into our bodies face stringent and lengthy regulatory reviews before being allowed to sell their products. Most people will agree that’s a good thing. “I put the medical device regulatory environment through a very personal prism,” says Bonn. “I don’t want any product my life might depend on to be anything less than absolutely safe and effective. Regulations and compliance oversight are not inherently a bad thing when it’s your life or your body.” Bonn and the company she founded are based in Amherst. She and her team walk companies through the medical product compliance and regulatory process. Even in a perfect world, that process isn’t short or uncomplicated. Try to handle this without someone who knows the FDA rules and regulations and you’re probably going to run into problems and major time delays. Time is money in every industry. In the medical and healthcare industry, regulatory compliance and effective time management can be the difference between success and bankruptcy.

“Take the African company example further. Guideline Medical is not simply a documentation company. We travel to China, or other countries, on behalf of our clients to assure their manufacturing facilities are compliant with FDA and other international standards. If the factories don’t meet expectation and requirements, we may need to find a different manufacturing facility.”

“In the long run, it’s more expensive to not follow FDA guidelines and experience setbacks than it is to carefully and methodically proceed from point A to point B,” Bonn says. “Cut corners at your own peril. It’s not a board game where you get sent back to square one to start over. Surely that does happen, but you also get flagged as a company that cannot follow guidelines, and once flagged you’ve got a whole new layer of compliance to overcome.” “Everyone knows at least something about the medical industry because we all have bodies, and we all need care at some point. To the non-medical professional, taking a product to market in the medical field must seem daunting. And it is, don’t get me

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“The combination of the headquarters and hotel complex represents the largest single private commitment of dollars to downtown Buffalo in the city’s history. But even more importantly, the development of the Buffalo Savings Bank headquarters and the Hyatt Hotel complex will forge the crucial link between the Convention Center and the Theatre District, and help provide continuity to all downtown redevelopment efforts.” – Ross B. Kenzie, President, Buffalo Savings Bank, 1980 In 1980, Buffalo Savings Bank—renamed Goldome Bank in 1983—announced plans for a $55 million expansion to be a key part of the federally subsidized Fountain Plaza redevelopment project. In 1981, every building on the block between Main, Washington, Huron, and Chippewa, except the original Buffalo Savings Bank, was razed for the expansion. At a January 6 formal celebration, Mayor James Griffin swung a gold-colored sledge hammer at the Washington Street building that housed Herb’s Grill and Pete’s 574 Club. A gold-colored wrecking ball crashed into the building as a few hundred onlookers cheered on and a band played the Talking Proud song. By April, the Main Street buildings shown in this 1980 photograph—with businesses like Liberty Shoes, Buffalo Optical Co., Phil’s Famous Brand Shoes, Tanke jewelers, Brownie’s Army & Navy Store, Buffalo Leather Goods, LaRussa Men’s Shop, and Dino’s Pizza—were sent to the landfill. The new headquarters—an anti-social building with a ground floor devoted to a corporate lobby and offices set back behind an arcade—was completed by 1985. Goldome P Bank went out of business in 1991. —THE PUBLIC STAFF

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Pfizer, the large drug manufacturer, has teams of regulatory and compliance officers. This is not the case for small teams of entrepreneurs who are all over the world and increasingly all over Buffalo. With the advent of the 43 North yearly competition, STARTUP NY, and various other business incubators, the Buffalo business community is seeing new medical products and ideas sprout each year. Companies like Guideline Medical, with roots right here in the Buffalo region, give those companies a chance to compete on the large stage. “There’s a tipping point, and it’s coming soon. Buffalo is a fantastic place to do business globally,” Bonn says. This series will explore global business in Western New York from a human perspective, talking to local businesspeople who conduct at least part of their business on the global stage. To hear more from this week’s subject, follow The International P Buffalo podcast on dailypublic.com.

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Cuomo, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and US Senator Charles Schumer have each sounded a call for action in Buffalo, where lead poisoning remains a significant problem. Whether the calls get answered on the local level is another story. As I reported earlier in February, 273 city children tested positive for dangerous levels of lead in their blood in 2015, an increase of 13 percent from the prior year. That’s the most of any upstate community. In addition, the seriousness of the problem is very likely under-reported because the state uses an outdated standard, which I will get to later. On Sunday, Schneiderman announced his office is “investing” $346,825 in the Buffalo Green and Healthy Homes Initiative. This is the attorney general’s first financial commitment specifically earmarked for lead programs in Buffalo since the Green and Healthy Homes initiative launched here in 2009. About 40 low-income, owner-occupied homes will benefit from the attorney general’s funding. That’s in addition to the 882 homes already made lead-safe since the program’s inception. While those numbers represent a degree of progress, consider there are 85,000 housing units in Buffalo at risk for lead hazards. In other words, about one percent of the homes were made lead-safe by this program and the additional 40 homes won’t move the meter much toward eliminating the problem. Last week, Schumer proposed—and the key word here is “proposed”—legislation that would offer property owners making $110,000 or less a year up to a $3,000 tax credit to abate lead hazards in homes, whether it be lead in paint or the plumbing. The average cost to abate lead hazards in a home runs about $10,000, according to the EPA. If a property owner can’t afford abatement, Schumer proposes a $1,000 tax credit to paint over lead hazards or for other interim measures. How these credits might benefit Buffalo property owners is uncertain. Low-income renters don’t qualify for the tax credits and no one knows how many out-ofstate LLCs renting out substandards apartments make more than $110,000 a year.

More noteworthy is Schumer’s push to double federal funding to $230 million annually for lead programs, although its passage is a uncertain in the Republican-controlled Congress. Meanwhile, Cuomo told Investigative Post on February 17 that the state is prepared to act “right away” to help deal with the problem. Exactly how is unclear, as the state Department of Health hasn’t responded to numerous interview requests. One easy fix: updating the state’s lead poisoning standards so that they are in line with the federal threshold approved four years ago by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The threshold the state uses to identify children who need medical care for lead in their blood is 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood. That’s double the threshold used by the CDC. By using the lower threshold, state health officials under-report the seriousness of the lead poisoning problem, Schumer said. “New York State should follow the CDC,” Schumer said. “I was not aware of that, but they should.” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has yet to commit to getting the city more involved with tackling the lead problem, even though Erie County Health Department Commissioner Gale Burstein has said her office lacks the resources to sufficiently tackle the issue. But after rebuffing an overture from state health officials, the mayor has at least agreed to have his staff meet with county officials to discuss options. n UPCOMING EVENT:

Investigative Post editor Jim Heaney interviews Congressman Brian Higgins at a noon luncheon on Wednesday, March 9, at Osteria 166, located at 166 Franklin Street. Tickets can be purchased online at investigativepost.org/events. Dan Telvock is a reporter for Investigative Post, a nonprofit investigative reporting center focused on issues of importance to Buffalo and Western New York. Its partners include The Public, WGRZ TV 2 On Yor Side, WBFO 88.7 P FM, and The Capital Pressroom. DAILYPUBLIC.COM / MARCH 2 - 8 / THE PUBLIC

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State bureaucracy slowed construction at Solar City this week.

HOUSING, WEALTH, RECOVERY How sprawl undermines Buffalo’s momentum BY BRUCE FISHER

THE OBAMA RECOVERY HERE LOOKS LIKE IT DOES EVERYWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA: WELCOME NEWS, BUT STILL LEAVING MANY URBAN AMERICAN SPACES WITH THE LEGACY OF 60 YEARS OF OUTWARD DRIFT OF POPULATION

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systems were still causing construction delays in the Solar City factory rising on the south bank of the Buffalo River. That factory and its associated activities promise a couple of thousand new manufacturing jobs to arrive in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metro, replacing the couple of thousand old manufacturing jobs that were lost over the past decade. In a metro area with more than 18,000 of about 36,000 African-American men are not participating in the workforce, and with an absolute reduction in the overall workforce size still underway, new manufacturing jobs for a growth industry are very good news.

force African-American men aged 20-64). Buffalo is way down at number eight on the list of 100 most distressed areas, with over 60 percent of folks here living in distressed areas.

And make no mistake about the economics of the solar panels and the associated lithium batteries that Solar City CEO Elon Musk will be producing: New research published by Bloomberg News, building on peer-reviewed research by Stanford’s Mark Jacobson et alia, demonstrate that the potential uptake of new alternative-energy inputs graphs out looking more like a hockey stick, or at least an S-curve, than just a nice slow increase. In other words, electric cars (for example), which are now less than one percent of the total car market, will, within five to 10 years, suddenly ramp up very fast to tens of millions of vehicles—and soon after could utterly supplant gas-powered cars. Kind of like the way we took to cell phones. Ditto solar panels knocking out home heating and electrical generation currently powered by burning fossil fuels.

There’s nothing new in that, actually, and we’re understandably fatigued with social scientists counting our poor noses within the boundaries of the City of Buffalo, as if there were a wall running across Kenmore Avenue to Bailey and down to the start of McKinley Parkway.

So the place, the actual central-city location, where the new virtuous cycle of technology, high skill, new construction, and high wages will all happen, that’s the place that will reap the economic benefits—right? Not so fast, say the data.

In short, except for the couple of hundred high-wage jobs related to banking, some construction work for Solar City, and the medical campus, the Obama recovery here looks like it does everywhere else in America: good to have, welcome news, but still leaving many urban American spaces with the legacy of 60 years of outward drift of population, enterprises, housing, and skills.

ANOTHER NEW REPORT ON POVERTY The very day last week that we were inventorying the housing stock, household incomes, and Earned Income Tax Credit eligibility of the West Side of Buffalo turned out to be release day for Economic Innovation Group’s Distressed Communities Index. Buffalo wasn’t number one on that list. We are behind Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Newark, a couple of bankrupt California cities, and Milwaukee (which still tops the list of out-of-work6

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The true utility of this report lies in its overall conclusion: that the Obama economic recovery, which really has produced 14 million new jobs since 2008, and which really has produced around 30,000 new jobs in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metro area, has happened in this context: •

ongoing concentration of low-income households in old urban centers;

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comparatively few of the new jobs being above the median wage for most Zip Codes; and

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low-wage work, remaining the norm in old urban centers.

And as we showed here recently, by tracking the 60,000 construction permits issued since 1980 for single-family dwellings, only 1,200 of the total were issued inside the boundaries of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The new jobs and new money are being poured into a sieve.

HOPEFUL SIGNS? Sprawl happened, it’s still happening, and just now, there’s nothing in the way of policy, regulation, or law that is changing the dynamic of young families departing the centers of any of the cities on the Distressed Communities Index for the suburban peripheries of Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati, Newark, or Buffalo. Milwaukee has had some notable success in retaining population, according to former Mayor John Norquist, because of a robust school-choice program—but Milwaukee is the worst in workforce participation for the most marginalized minorities, and has a home-grown white supremacist movement, a homegrown black supremacist movement, ills that nobody seeks to replicate. But we remain hopeful that immigrants to Buffalo will find the observable phenomenon of housing-value appreciation on the West Side attractive enough to prevent further outmigration— in the decades-old pattern pioneered by World War II’s refugees—to the first- and second-ring suburbs. We recently noted that Syracuse, another distressed municipality, is engaged in a conversation about restructuring its governance such that sprawl is contained and the positive phenomenon of “the great inversion,” as Alan Ehrenhalt calls it, happens there in the form of durable re-population of the city. As one travels West Side streets and sees handsome, sturdy, wellbuilt (albeit lead-paint-coated) two-story houses, one can only hope that the generations of subsidies for sprawl will end, and that the bankers who financed Buffalo’s abandonment can be cajoled into profiting by refinancing the cityscape that will continue to erode without their involvement. Bruce Fisher is visiting professor at SUNY Buffalo State and P director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies.

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ic boom, in 2001 a Goldman Sachs economist named Dominic Wilson published a report titled “Dreaming with BRICS.” The article predicted the global economy would be dominated by four emerging economies by the year 2050. It was one of the first publications indicating a shift of economic power from Western nations to the South and East. The term “BRIC” was coined two years earlier by another Goldman Sachs economist, Jim O’Neil, who noted in his paper, “Building Better Global Economic BRICs,” that Brazil (B), Russia (R), India (I), and China (C), were set to have over a 1.5 percent growth in their GDP. These countries were supposed to lead the world into a new, prosperous, economic age. When the report was first published, the four countries’ combined GDP was worth just under 15 percent of the G6. Goldman Sachs prediction relied on an average 2.5 percent growth by the BRIC nations from 2000 to 2050. A chart published by the Economist shows the four nations outperforming the original projections for their combined GDP. The four emerging markets became leading topics of global economic discussion and speculation. Suddenly the commodity trading between Brazil and China captured the world’s attention. Brazil’s growth was more than impressive; it was not only granted the 2014 World Cup but also the 2016 Olympics in Rio. However, as quickly as they rose to prominence, the BRIC bloc has begun to falter. These resource-rich nations may have ridden the speculation too far. In just over a decade, the emerging markets have gone stagnant and even shrunk. In 2015 Brazil’s GDP shrunk by -2.5 percent—second to last, just ahead of Venezuela. The fall of commodity prices and government corruption have landed Brazil on Bloomberg’s 2016 forecast for worst economies. To put that in perspective, after the collapse of its economy, Greece is predicted to shrink only by -1.7 percent. The Brazilian government made a bad situation worse through “unproductive tax breaks” and various other expenditures it could not afford. Almost every member of the BRIC economic blog is struggling. On January 11, the New York Times reported that Russia’s primary stock indexes plummeted due to the continued drop in oil prices. Oil is currently selling around $30 per barrel, a number that has not been seen since before China’s boom in the early 2000s. The economy further struggles from Western sanctions put in place after its 2014 annexation of Crimea and its continued backing of rebels in the Ukraine. Russia was aware that harsh times were ahead but did not expect things to be so difficult so soon. They disregarded a rule that requires “a

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PROJECTED three-year budget cycle because of the high degree of uncertainty.” Unfortunately for Russia, the 2016 national budget was written in October 2015 when the Kremlin expected the average price of oil to be around $50 per barrel. After years of market manipulation, the Chinese slowdown has caught up to the Shanghai exchange, causing the stock exchange to suspend all trades multiples times since the start of 2016. According to CNBC, if the market rises or falls by five percent, trades are suspended for 15 minutes; if it falls seven percent, circuit-breakers cut off trading for the rest of the day. Other problems with the Chinese economy are a rising debt from bad loans and an aging population. Its growth has become unsustainable yet leadership has attempted to continue steady progress with little substance. The results could be catastrophic. Of the four nations, India appears to be in the best shape. With the second-largest population of any country, India has had some of the most consistent productive gains of the four nations. In fact, it has outperformed previous estimates, postng a GDP growth of 6.9 percent instead of 4.7 percent in 2014. Part of the reason is India’s growing middle class. Though only making up around five percent of the population, a report by Ernst & Young predicts the number could grow to 200 million by 2020 and more than 400 million by 2030. The declining oil prices, which have harmed the Russian and Brazilian economies, are helping India. As the fourth-leading consumer of fossil fuels, every drop in the price of oil benefits the country’s import bills; the Economic Times reports that every $10 drop in oil reduces India’s current deficit by .5 percent of GDP. The original BRIC predictions by Goldman Sachs economists could still prove accurate by 2050. They acknowledged that even though the four countries will have fast-growing economies, their populations would still be poorer than the average G6 country. Or, the fall of commodity prices may have dug a hole too deep for three of the countries to climb out of. Ari Goldfarb is not affiliated with Raymond James. Views expressed are the opinions of Ari Goldfarb and the Financial Advisors at Goldfarb Financial and not necessarily those of Raymond James. Goldfarb Financial is an independent firm. Securities offered through Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC. Raymond James is not affiliated with and does not endorse the opinions or services of Dominic Wilson or Goldman Sachs. The foregoing information has been obtained from sources considered to be reliable, but we do not guarantee that it is accurate or complete. Links are being provided for information purposes only. Raymond James is not affiliated with and does not endorse, authorize ,or sponsor any of the listed websites or their respective sponsors. Raymond James is not responsible for the content of any website or the collection or use of information regarding any website’s users and/ P or members.

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Peter Johnson steps up to the mic, going one step beyond the current generation of ghetto standup comedians. He shows them up as merely coy and cute, like children paying in mud. Meanwhile, Johnson shoots a spit-wad of harsher material, aiming it at our faces with stinging slingshot force. How do audiences respond? If you try to roll with him you will, sooner or later, be caught up short and try to swallow your laugh. But, if you try to resist you will, helplessly, instinctively, find yourself laughing. This segment typifies playwright Lee’s challenge to audiences. Don’t expect to like or dislike anything. Your perspective will change throughout this ride.

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lifeless as our hero goes to jail, finds religion, becomes famous and yadda yadda yadda. Characters are gunned down with trite inevitability. Riddick’s ghetto women are either literally from heaven or mindlessly sexual. As a video ho, she twerks as vacantly as a rocking horse. Playing a what would be flamboyant hairdresser, Dudney Joseph could make Tyler Perry blanch. Director Shanahan follows Lee’s lead, steers the actors away from tickling the audience for guffaws. Doing so, viewers question why the black characters in our TV, film, and, sadly, theater are so non-dimensional. No wonder why the public is confused and disappointed when black people in real life are more complex and do not enter and exit and live our their lives for situational convenience. It is only the final scene that drags a bit. We are introduced to a hive of sophisticates behaving badly but ever so politely. If tightened, the opening premise (as deft a spoof of consumption culture as it is) would be closer to the devastating punchline, which sells the piece. Individually and as an ensemble the entire cast is fine. It is vividly staged by Shanahan on Kristina Seigel’s simple set. Jessica Wegrzyn uniforms the cast in variation on tuxedoes. Choreography and musical direction, though uncredited, are very good. Ms. Lee’s script is brilliant and, abetted so well by the local talent, makes Torn Space Theater’s production of The Shipment a highly recommended event. Worth seeing, and perhaps more than once.

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JOHN SIDES , PhD THE WAKE: A PARTY TO DIE FOR FRIDAY MAR 4 7PM / DARCY MCGEE’S IRISH PUB, 257 FRANKLIN ST. / $50-$60 [FUNDRAISER] On March 4, theater patrons will turn out in great numbers not to praise Bartholomew McCorpse, but to bury him. (Among the fictitious Barry’s pallbearers? Why, his equally fictitious brother Cary, of course.) It’s the Irish Classical Theatre’s annual fundraiser The Wake: A Party to Die For, which takes place this Friday, March 4 at Darcy McGee’s Irish Pub. The revelry spans two floors, with music by Kevin McCarthy, Meet the Bacons, Crikwater, and McCarthyizm, and quick-moving feet from the McCarthy School of Irish Dance, among other divine entertainments and diversions. Your ticket—$55 resale (or $50 for ICTC subscribers, $60 at the door—includes free beer, wine, and food, and helps to keep the lights on for one of the region’s finest theater companies. Get them now at irishclassical.com, at the theater’s box office at 625 Main Street, or by calling 716-853-4282 -THE PUBLIC STAFF

PLAYBILL CHILDREN OF EDEN (musical based on the book of Genesis, script by John Caird, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz): And yet another musical tapping a biblical source. And yet another such musical offered to us by Stephen Schwartz. Yes, he of Godspell—and Wicked and Pippin, for that matter. The show’s pivotal character is called Father and is a warmer and fuzzier version of the thundering Yahweh of the original testament. This is part of the intrinsic take of the show: The world spins upon the family dynamic of misdeed and forgiveness between parents and children. Begins on February 26 and closes on March 6 at Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Avenue in Lancaster. 716683-1776; lancopera.org. CITY OF CONVERSATION (drama Anthony Giardina): In Washington, DC, there are several different arenas where games of power are played. Earlier this season, Kavinoky Theatre presented Both Your Houses, which showed politicos dueling in the Capitol’s back offices. Now the Kav provides a keyhole view of the genteel homes of well-heeled families that hobnob with the elected, using hospitality to forge political alliances. Like the real-life Pamela Harriman or Perle Mesta, the fictional Hester Ferris is as much a political moderator as she is a society hostess. Dinner parties achieve the intensity of national party conventions. Giardina’s story traces the ebb and flow of politics from the Reagan administration through that of Obama. Running at the Kavinoky from February 26 through March 20, Porter and Prospect, on the D’Youville College campus. 716-8297668, kavinokytheatre.com. EL HAJJ MALIK (poetic drama by N. R. Davidson): Lorna C. Hill directs one of Ujima Company’s earliest productions as well as one of its most memorable. But since it has been 30 or so years since this show has appeared in Ujima’s repertory, it is time for a new generation of audience to hear this story and to appreciate Ujima’s unique telling of it. In a variety of poetic rhythms, the life story of Malcolm Little, known to most people as Malcolm X. The play is a search into the history of the events that made the boy into the man, as well as a speculation into the awesome, articulate, provocative legend who, perhaps, can be better understood 50 years after his death. Performances through March 6. Ujima will perform this show Alleyway’s Main Street Cabaret, 672 Main Street. 716-281-0092 or ujimacoinc@me.com. LOAD MORE GUYS (a new play with music scripted and staged by Todd Warfield): Todd Warfield sets his sights on a certain breed of gay men. His POV is the hyperactive crossroads of social media and real life. Even before meeting live there is a sometimes complicated mating dance. Men hook up there. Political alliances are made there. Sex tips are traded there. Entertainment is exploited there. Catch up with friends there. Guys can be anonymous or intimate there. Swipe these guys left, swipe those guy right. Want some more fresh faces? Press the button marked “Load

more guys.” Dramatic pace is prodded along by a musical background, scenes are layered with mini-drag shows. Oh…absolutely no one under 18 will be admitted. The show, running through March 19, is presented by Buffalo United Artists. At Alleyway Theatre, One Curtain Up! Alley. 716886-9239, or BuffaloBUA.com. RING OF FIRE (musical revue created by Richard Maltby, Jr. and conceived by William Meade): For many, Johnny Cash was the voice of country music. In fact, he was many voices for a variety of songs. In his long, varied career, he dipped into gospel, bluegrass, rockabilly, Christian, and punk. This revue pulls together 30-plus songs which Cash recorded or performed during is career. Musicalfare’s creative team, headed by director-choreographer Michael Walline and musical director Theresa Quinn, aim to make use of the Cash songbook, providing the show with distinctive interpretations, both musical and staged, for each number. Ring of Fire was first developed for production at Studio Arena in 2006 before a truncated run on Broadway. A year ago, Richard Maltby, Jr., the show’s creator, revised the show and staged it for Milwaukee Rep. Apparently rethinking this revue for to better establish its worth is in the air. Final performance at MusicalFare Theatre on Daemen College campus this Wednesday, March 2, at 7pm. 4300 Main Street in Snyder. 716839-8540, musicalfare.com. THE SHIPMENT (play by Young Jean Lee): Playwright Lee has said of her works, “Going out of my comfort zone compels me to challenge my assumptions and find value in unexpected places.” She is also up to challenging the assumptions of audiences, and in The Shipment viewers are asked to consider the validity of pre-existing racial beliefs. The usual black-white dichotomy is explored from the inherent dimension of Lee’s perspective as a Korean American. This script draws from cultural (mis)representations found in entertainments both old and new, featuring stereotypes sourced in theater, dance, and music. This includes minstrel shows, in which black performers imitated white performers imitating black performers. It also includes more recent stand-ups speculating “Why do white people do that, while black people do this?” Lee bottom-lines the whole affair by speculating about why any of us put up with any of the stereotypes, or rather rely upon them, suggesting that the worst part of black-white race relations is nothing but a show. Through March 13. Presented by Torn Space Theater at Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue. 716-8125733, tornspacetheater.com.

Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University

“Who Will Win the White House? How to Understand the Unpredictable 2016 Campaign”

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 7:00 pm Lecture | Grupp Fireside Lounge

This event is free and open to the public. Parking available in the Science Hall Parking Ramp. Seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30 pm. For more information, call the Office of Stewardship and Events at 716-888-8206 or visit canisius.edu/fitzpatrick-institute/.

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WEDNESDAY MAR 2

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Revolution Coffee Liqueur Release Party 5pm Lockhouse Distillery, 41 Columbia St.

[PARTY] On Wednesday March 2, Lockhouse Distillery will release their newest creation, Revolution Coffee Liqueur. The product is in collaboration with Buffalo’s Public Espresso, famous for their handpoured coffees. Later on at 8pm, Lockhouse will throw a party in celebration of the new product, which includes music by DJ Crespo and tons of prizes and giveaways. An eventful night you won’t want to miss! -NATHANIEL SWEETMAN

Note to Self: The Psychosexual Films of Nazlı Dinçel 7pm Sugar City, 1239 Niagara St. $7 or free for Squeaky Wheel members

just ending now self (destructive) album Recommended If You Like: Trent Reznor, Kanye West

It’s difficult to ignore Jeremy Jermaine Jerome, and that’s meant in the most literal way possible. The eccentric artist/rapper practically wills his music and personality onto people he’s identified as potential fans, inspirations, critics, promoters, and tastemakers. Part of his strategy includes renting out the region’s most celebrated (and expensive) venues, including Asbury Hall and Kleinhans, for overthe-top performances. His music, like his persona, is penetrative, and thus not for everyone. His latest musical foray, the long-coming fulllength self (destructive), is the culmination of those previously mentioned efforts of varying success. The record is 10 tracks of jarring industrial-rap bombast that much of the time rubs the wrong way but occasionally wanders into moments of inspired resolution. Despite some ill-advised singing on “Intuition” and “Found Your Way Via Escape,” Jerome’s effort is impressive and any prior miscues are redeemed on the record’s climax, “To Change a Panhandler,” on which the 30-something artist sounds his fiercest, ripping through the mechanized beats crafted by producer Andrew Esposito. “To Change a Panhandler” is the shining spot on the album in terms of production, lyricism, flow, and virtually every other category that comes to mind. The rest of the album is marked by the gritty, grimy, down-tempo beats on tracks like “After Effects” and “Obsess” by producer Alex Boles, and the unique lyrics of Jerome. Jerome’s lyrics have always revolved around the themes of religion, death, birth, and the South—where he grew up, though he’ll always remind you that he was born in Buffalo—and this record is no different except that it’s all a bit more focused. If you ask him what he thinks of his own record, he’ll tell you that it’s something “sacred” and “groundbreaking” but that’s up to you, the listener, to decide.

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JAUZ THURSDAY MAR 3 8PM / TOWN BALLROOM, 681 MAIN ST. / $23 [EDM] Factory Night Life and MNM Presents are teaming up to bring the young gun Jauz to the Town Ballroom on Thursday, March 3. The 21-year-old producer and DJ was a student of the Icon Collective school of music, studying under teachers like Christopher Wright, with dreams of becoming the next Excision. Now the DJ will perform at the same Buffalo venue that Excision sold out one week ago. Jauz has come a long way in a very short time, creating bass-heavy tunes that fall somewhere between electro, dubstep, and house music—like his 2014 Mad Decent debut, “Feel the Volume.” Beats like “Feel the Volume” and his remix of A$AP Mob’s “Hella Hoes” have taken him to festivals around the country, where he spreads his message of “music with no boundaries.” He’ll break down those boundaries in Buffalo this weekend. -CORY PERLA

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[FILM] This event is being billed as an evening of “visceral and provocative” films, and if you’re familiar with the work of Nazlı Dinçel, then you’ll probably agree that it is both. Dinçel makes miniature abstract films that focus on subjects such as overconsumption, the intimate exploration of her body (and her partner’s), and the Oedipal complex as critiqued from a feminist perspective. A 72-minute, nine-film presentation by Sugar City and Squeaky Wheel, titled Note to Self: The Psychosexual Films of Nazlı Dinçel, will take place at Sugar City on Wednesday, March 2, sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. -CP

Tal Wilkenfeld 7pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $14

[POP] The talented young bass guitarist Tal Wilkenfeld has played alongside some notable jazz and rock artists, including the Allman Brothers, Chick Corea, and Eric Clapton. Now she’s stepped into the spotlight on her own, and plans to release her debut vocal album this year, with the promise of some exciting music. Come listen to Wilkenfeld on Wednesday, March 2 at the Tralf Music Hall. -NS

THURSDAY MAR 3 Marian McLaughlin 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10-$13

SAMPLES OF ARTWORK BY COLIN MACCUBBIN AND FLORIAN AYALA FAUNA

THE BLACK STAG & THE BLOOD GLAMOR

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7PM / SUGAR CITY, 1239 NIAGARA ST. / $5 [EXPERIMENTAL] Two local artists, Colin Maccubbin and Florian Ayala Fauna, will present their uniquely disarming visual artwork at Sugar City on Friday, March 4 as part of their joint show titled Black Stag and the Blood Glamor. The more extreme artist, Fauna’s work is based on personal visions, religious experiences, encounters with beings from alternative planes, and traditional mysticism, according to an artist's statement. Maccubbin’s work, on the other hand, is inspired by chaos and rock music, and working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. Despite their apparent differences—Maccubin’s work is more colorful and bombastic, whereas Fauna’s work is drenched in darkness—their art is quite similar, both making use of collage and text in their imagery. The opening reception of the show will feature music from Fauna’s music group uncertain—featuring local musicians Nola Ann Ran of Cages, George Moore of STCLVR, and Andy Czuba of Flesh Trade—as well as music from VWLS, Bicycle Myself, and Flesh Trade. -CORY PERLA

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[FOLK] Marian McLaughlin‘s ornate brand of progressive folk pairs the preciousness of Joanna Newsom’s free-form style with sturdier elements of classic, nylon-string folkies like Joan Baez. With her musical partner in crime, double bassist and arranger, Ethan Foote, McLaughlin has created a surprisingly versatile cycle of tunes for her second release, Spirit House, moving well beyond the chamber motif of her debut into much more experimental territory. For her Buffalo gig, Thursday, March 3 at the 9th Ward (downstairs at Babeville), she’s joined by our own folkie string ensemble, Tiny Rhymes. -CJT

John Witherspoon 8pm Helium Comedy Club, 30 Mississippi St. $20-$33

[COMEDY] John Witherspoon’s career has spanned four decades, in which time he has coined such catchphrases as “You gotta coordinate!” He has appeared in blockbuster movies, hit television shows, commercials, and music videos. He became known as one of America’s funniest dads for his roles as Ice Cube (Craig’s) dad in the cult classic trilogy Friday and as Pops on the long-running sitcom The Wayans Brothers. The Detroit-bred comic voices Lloyd on Adult Swim’s hit series Black Jesus and continues to peddle his comedy act throughout the country. Catch John Witherspoon at Helium Comedy Club on Thursday, March 3 through Saturday, March 5. -KELLIE POWELL

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Happy Hour: The Jony James Band PHOTO BY SELMA SELMAN

SELMA SELMAN: FRIDAY MAR 4 ME POSTOJISARAV - POSTOJIM - I EXIST 6PM DOORS OPEN, 8PM PERFORMANCE / DREAMLAND, 387 FRANKLIN ST. [ART] Selma Selman walks into a room and she’s regular. She’s wearing a dress over winter knit tights and her heavy, thick hair is only partially gathered by a scrunchie in a tail atop her head. Her eyes are green and her teeth are European—and when she laughs her body folds in on itself, as if in containment. I recognize her in that moment: the social gagging of the partially assimilated. The strained softening of those whose bloodlines hearken over centuries of forced diaspora. Our laughter is too wild. Our laughter gets us kicked off of wine trains and denied entry into the silent halls of national institutions. I feel connected. We are kindred. Someone puts on traditional Balkan music and she begins to dance and her movements are magnificent and unattainable. I am suddenly the white dude at a kegger in Clarence when a gaggle of chill young black kids from the East Side wander in. I am ready to watch. I have been waiting my entire life for this moment. Cuz ain’t I a down ass white dude? Look at this slick perfected dab! Ain’t I a gypsy? Hasn’t my Pinterest photo log of dried flower bundles, velveteen blazers, and low-level feminism blown your mind? Selma is Roma. Selma says you know nothing. In Europe, right now the word gypsy is a slur. Gypsy is the old nigger. Gypsy is a marker for peoples killed with impunity through the ages for being stateless. Gypsy is a state of emergency. An air-raid siren that never goes off. A ghetto because no one will rent out an apartment in a nicer area to your family. A dead-end job because your name is funny. A purse-clutched tighter in a shared elevator. People in awe at your dance moves because all you have left is movement. Black and Roma commonality lies in objectistruction (equal parts objectification/institutional destruction) and Selma’s immense multidisciplinary body of work is in direct antithesis to the genteel re-imaginings of the carefree Roma. Selma speaks of statelessness, the collective resignation of stereotypical portrayals that at this very moment have socially castrated an entire group of people. In the wake of these horrors, a tapestry of resilience is being weaved, blending familial strengths, intellectual curiosity, and commonalities that span ethnicity and time. The Roma are not an abstract. Selma is flesh and blood and now she will speak for herself. On Friday, March 4, Dreamland showcases the first US solo exhibition of Selma Selman, Bosnian artist of Roma origins, currently based in Syracuse, New York. Curated by Jasmina Tumbas, Me postojisarav – Postojim – I exist presents Selman’s struggle with the questions of statelessness, multi-generational trauma, and survival. Land and body become sites of emancipation and persecution for Selman, which the artist explores in video-works, sound sculptures, paintings, and a new performance work. Selman complicates the notions of what it means to maintain self-sovereignty as a foreigner in her land of origin and her current home. Ultimately, her search for political resistance situates this confrontation within the gendered and radicalized presumptions about citizenship, belonging, and identity. Gallery opens for exhibition viewing at 6pm and performance begins at 8pm. -DANA MCKNIGHT

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5pm Dig @ The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Innovation Center, 640 Ellicott St.

[HAPPY HOUR] It's hard to imagine a national politics more macabre than what we have currently, but House of Cards makes it easier. Frank Underwood is back, and season four of the award-winning political drama

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Climate Change, System Change, Personal Change 6pm Buen Vivir, 148 Elmwood

[ART] The ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery presents a thought provoking look at some of today’s most troubling issues in Climate Change, System Change, Personal Change. Intended to explore the causes of climate change, and how racism, classism, and environmental destruction play into it, this show contains Climate Change: Realities and Resistance, a national exhibit featuring pictures from climate photographers, and Black on the Ground, White in the Air, an exhibit from artist Ashley Powell, who made national waves with her "White Only" art project at UB. This exhibit opens Friday, March 4, with a reception running from 6pm to 9pm, but the exhibit will be on display until April 29. -EVAN JAMES

THIS WEEK'S LGBT AGENDA THURSDAY MARCH 3

Friday Night Laughs

THE DAVID DANCE

7:30pm Tralf Music Hall, 622 Main St. $35

7PM at Amherst Dipson Theatre, 3500 Main St.

The film by Don Scime deals squarely with issues regarding the effects of bullying, LGBT identity, acceptance, and gay adoption. The film was shot in Western New York and takes place here, with the producer, writer, and lead actor all locals as well. General admission, $10; with student ID, $5.

SATURDAY MARCH 5

BUFFALO BULLDOGS LATEX NIGHT 10PM-2AM at Underground Niteclub, 274 Delaware Ave.

Everyone wears their favorite skins to this party, hosted by the Buffalo Bulldogs after the group’s monthly meeting. Silent auction at midnight. Liquid latex demonstration and applications starting at 10pm.

SOME KINDA LOVE: FRIDAY MAR 4 BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO LOU REED 9PM / NIETZSCHE'S, 248 ALLEN ST. / $5 [TRIBUTE] Departed rock god Lou Reed once said, “I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine.” Well, for many people, Reed’s nostalgia is also their nostalgia. Records like Transformer, Berlin, and Lou Reed are tools that some use to make sense of their dark sides, and when we recall these legendary records, we’re transported back to the moment we first heard them, or to the moment we realized their significance. I remember hearing the Velvet Underground’s “Run Run Run” and “Heroin” for the first time and thinking, "Oh, this is where my favorite artists got it from,” realizing his immense influence. Those are moments that we become nostalgic for. On Saturday, March 5, eight bands will bring their nostalgia to the surface for a special birthday tribute to Lou Reed titled Some Kinda Love. Bands the Dark Marbles, Tremendo, the Irving Klaws, the Card Cheats, Bad Ronald, the Good, Squid Carrot, and Bodega Wall Trance will dip into Reed’s deep discography and pick out some of their favorites to perform live for all of those Femme Fatales and Lonesome Cowboy Bills out there. -CORY PERLA

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[COMEDY] Friday Night Laughs returns to the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, March 4 with a brand new lineup. Hosted by the debonair Gangster of Comedy, Capone (HBO’s Sex Chronicles), this year’s show stars Deon Cole and features Marshal Brandon—the “Funniest Person In Connecticut”—and Kenny Woo. Capone’s comedic strength is his ability to adapt to any audience. It’s this universal comedic flair that has made him a mainstay in the comedy circuit and helped Capone nab his gig as the host of Harlem’s legendary Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre. For many years, Deon Cole was the only African-American writer in the Conan writer’s room, which gave him plenty of comedic ammunition when it comes to race. Cole was an instrumental player on the Emmy-nominated writing staff and cultivated a massive following with his gut-busting on-screen appearances as a correspondent. Cole’s comedic wit is sharp as nails, vulgar when appropriate, but encased in Cole’s calmness and charisma. This year Cole starred on Steve and Nancy Carell’s Angie Tribeca, which has been renewed for a second season. With up and coming comics Marshal Brandon and Kenny Woo rounding out Cole and Capone, Friday Night Laughs will surely deliver. -KP

SATURDAY MAR 5 The Wonder Years 6:30pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $19.50-$23

GOS GOZAH: GEM LYFE 10PM at Milkie’s, 522 Elmwood Ave.

It’s a time to celebrate our favorite queer universe—Steven, that is! Dress up as a gem not on the show and enter the costume contest. Featuring DJ Garnet, a burlesque show, and two for $5 drinks. Cover: $5.

SUNDAY MARCH 6

PETER CASE TUESDAY MAR 8 BABES DO BEYONCE 7-11PM at Club Marcella, 439 Pearl St.

An event honoring Keke ValasquezLord, to assist with her quest for the Miss Continental Plus crown. Hosted by Jonielle St. James Meehan and featuring queens from Buffalo, Rochester, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, the Beyonce tribute show will feature a special guest performance by former Miss Continental Armani. Cover: $10.

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[POP PUNK] After a debilitating bout of writer's block, the Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell finally got his creative juices flowing well enough to make the new No Closer to Heaven, which came out on the Hopeless label last fall. The Pennsylvania-born punkpop mainstays push at the confines of their template a bit on the new disc, at times going for a less abrasive alt-rock feel. But while the material may not deal with the suburban American experience like the band's first trio of full lengths, it's still rife with emo themes, centered on the loss of a loved one. Catch them at Town Ballroom on Saturday, March 5 with letlive., Tiny Moving Parts, and Microwave. -CJT

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[ROCK] Now on their own label, Robot Farming Records, Los Angeles by way of Utah artrock quartet TMTF has just released the new full-length they've been working on the last few years with producers Peter Katis (Interpol, the National), Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck), and Nate Pyfer (Parlor Hawk, Fictionist), as well as string arranger Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens). It's been five years since the band's 2011 debut, but if last year's Young and Unafraid EP was any indication, these guys have evolved in leaps and bounds, sounding a bit like the Editors might if they were from the states. Saturday, March 5 at the Tralf with Feverbox. -CJT

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BY VANESSA OSWALD DANCEHALL INSTRUCTOR RISHONE TODD is a

man of many talents who receives no bigger joy than sharing them with the community of Buffalo. From a young age, Todd was taken with the arts of dancing, cooking, and writing. Growing up in Barrett Town, a small town 30 minutes outside of Montego Bay, Jamaica, he spent the majority of his time honing the skills necessary to carry out his three labors of love. His surroundings as a child shaped him as a person, and throughout his life he has maintained love and pride for the culture and area from which he came. Now, after years of focusing on earning a degree and finding a good job, he has realized it’s time to get back to pursuing his passions, which has resulted in him graciously sharing his heritage with the public in more ways than one. “Jamaica is a whole different feeling than living in the States,” Todd said. “We’re more of a community. Everybody knows and helps each other around the community. Everybody calls my grandmother Mama J because she’s just a genuine person and is always about helping people. It doesn’t matter who it is, if it’s a stranger; she’s always feeding everybody.” Todd’s grandmother was a big influence in his life and was the one who first introduced him to dancing, specifically dancehall, and cooking. She also taught him about the ska movement, also known as skanking, which originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and R&B. “Ska has like a really catchy ‘ch-ch, ch-ch, ch-ch’ sound, and she would teach me how to move to that, and we both would dance together to those old songs,” Todd said. “From there it turned into reggae music and then reggae music turned into dancehall.” His first memory of dancing dancehall was at the age of six when he went to his first sound clash, essentially a battle between two sound systems, where he noticed all the women on the dance floor and the men off on the sidelines.

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“There were a lot of girls dancing,” Todd said. “There weren’t a lot of guys, so for me I was just like, ‘Okay, I want to learn.’ I was like, ‘Why aren’t the guys dancing? What’s wrong with the guys dancing?’ So I kind of learned how to dance dancehall from women because I danced with them.” The music played during sound clashes consists mostly of reggae and dancehall, which are both used for dancing dancehall but have notable differences. “Dancehall has a more upbeat rhythm and reggae is just relaxed and chill,” Todd explains. “Reggae sometimes has more of a conscious message and sometimes dancehall doesn’t. Dancehall is comparable to rap music and reggae is comparable to R&B.” Later on, when he began learning from other male dancers, he started to incorporate the elements of “groove” and “whining” into his style of dancehall, which he’s been teaching at occasional workshops at various dance studios in the Buffalo area. Todd says the main skill dancers of all backgrounds can learn from taking his class is staying

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“GOING TO SCHOOL DOESN’T NECESSARILY TEACH YOU HOW TO HANDLE BUSINESS, AND HOW TO TAKE THE THINGS YOU LOVE AND MAKE IT INTO BUSINESS.” connected in their bodies while dancing to the specific beats and rhythms present in the music.

to react to it because it wasn’t hip hop. It was just different. Now everybody loves it.”

Todd also teaches hip hop dance. He says dancehall and hip hop have obvious similarities, and the roots of dancehall are apparent in hip hop. The major difference between them is dancehall is much more relaxed, yet requires more focus.

Dancers who seek to learn a variety of dance styles outside their preferred genres and comfort zones always have the advantage in the professional world of dance, Todd says. When entering auditions he says it’s important for any dancer to appear versatile so they can stand out from the crowd.

“Hip hop you definitely are there, but sometimes there’s not really a connection, and you’re just going off,” Todd said. “With dancehall you are capturing the rhythm of the song with your movement.” Todd first moved to the US from Jamaica in 1994 at 12 years old. At first he lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He graduated from high school and began college at Nova Southeastern University, but withdrew and moved to Staten Island for a bit to live with his mother in 2000. In 2004 he came to the Western New York area, where his father lives, and attended Niagara University. In 2007, he received his degree in biology and a minor in engineering. Susie Kushner first met Todd six years ago while taking his hip hop aerobics class at NU’s Kiernan Center. “He has a passion for dance that is undeniable,” Kushner said. “With that, he puts so much into it to make sure his classes are challenging yet fun. And he’s great at providing visuals or metaphors for the movement, which helps students to connect to the routine more. He also has a smile that’s contagious. His classes are always a blast. You can tell he loves what he does.” Eventually Todd moved on to teaching a regular hip hop class at Kara Mann’s Free Soul Dance Studio in Blasdell in 2013 after five years of taking hip hop classes at the studio. “Based on his enthusiasm for spreading his love of dance and his style, I hired him to teach hip hop classes for adults at Free Soul,” Mann said. “Starting out as an adult that hadn’t taken much class, Rishone understands and can relate well to how it feels to come in to a class loving dance, but new to the process of learning choreography.” Todd says his favorite part about teaching is witnessing his students’ progress throughout their time in class, especially when they think they have “two left feet” and then accomplish novesthey thought impossible. Now, being the only dancehall instructor in the area, he’s teaching a lot of dancers something they have never done before, but are excited to tackle. “I enjoy teaching because I like sharing with people the things that I’m passionate about,” Todd says. “Movement, whether it’s hip hop, dancehall, salsa, or ballroom. I just love that process and to teach something that is actually from my culture is an even bigger thing, At first I was scared to do it because I didn’t know how people were going

Outside of dancing, Todd enjoys cooking and building up his clientele, as he’s drawing up the plans to open a restaurant in the future. Along with cooking for specific clients, he also teaches private cooking classes. His authentic Caribbean cuisine is often fused with hints of French, Italian, Spanish, and Egyptian. “I used to go with my grandma when she worked at the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay,” Todd said. “She used to cook for all the guests and celebrities that came. I used to be with her helping her around the lodges that the celebrities lived in. Her personality and her food—the people would just eat that up.” His third love, writing, is something he tries to do on a daily basis, whether it’s writing down recipes, choreography, or observations of everyday life. “For me they sort of work off of each other,” Todd says. “A lot of people are like, ‘You have to pick one’ and I’m like, ‘No, I want all three of them and I’m going to do all three of them.’” Before diving full force into his three passions, Todd worked as a validation engineer for three and a half years at Fresenius Kabi, formerly known as APP Pharmaceuticals. Each day he had to gown up from head to toe and was forced to make minimal movements, cautious not to spread particles or bacteria inside the facility. In October 2014 he made the tough decision to quit, but ultimately recognized it was the right choice, as his job had been stifling him from what he feels is his true path. While Todd is thankful he had the opportunity to earn his degree and go to college, he’s now a firm believer in doing what makes him eager to get out of bed in the morning. “I’m finding out that going to school doesn’t necessarily teach you how to handle business, and how to take the things you love and make it into business,” Todd said. “I’m learning as I go and I’m loving it. Right now I can’t imagine waking up and doing anything else.” Todd is teaching a six-week workshop series called “Dancehall Roots” on Thursdays at 7pm from March 3 to April 14 (there will be no class on March 24) at Verve Dance Studio at 910 Main Street in Buffalo. Single classes are $15 P and the full session is $48.

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SOUTH OF THE BORDER EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO / BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSES / A WAR BY M. FAUST Peter Greenaway first stormed the arthouses of the world with films like Prospero’s Books and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the sad state of film distribution may have minimized his ability to reach an audience, but his style hasn’t changed much. His latest film, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, differs from the rest of his distinctive oeuvre only in that his protagonist is a filmmaker instead of a painter. IN THE THREE DECADES SINCE

To Greenaway and many others, Sergei Eisenstein is the filmmaker, the man who more than any other single figure invented film grammar as we now know it in his features Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October. Eisenstein in Guanajuato is set during a period in 1931 when the Russian, having failed to get a project rolling in Hollywood, journeyed sough of the border for his famously unfinished epic Que Viva Mexico. His professional undoing, the film suggests, may have had to do with his personal blossoming, his first sexual experience at the hands of his Mexican handler. If you didn’t know that Eisenstein was gay, it’s likely because his homeland has done its best to keep it quiet. As portrayed by Finnish actor Elmer Back in a ridiculous white suit (purchased, Eisenstein claims, for a meeting with Charlie Chaplin), he’s about as sedate as Roberto Benigni, though considerably more literate. The dialogue is so filled with allusions to Eisenstein’s work and writings, as well as the artistic milieu, that it would take a dozen viewings to unravel them all. Greenaway has tempered the delight in packing his digitally modified compositions that made Prospero’s Books so overwhelming, but that’s not saying much: Especially in the first half of the film, he’s always splitting the screen to pack in information including photos of the real people being discussed. Nor has he lost his taste for production design, with enormous sets that his otherwise sedate camera struggles to encompass. About the only thing that he has tempered is the Jacobean brutality that once horrified his audiences. Eisenstein in Guanajuato will be shown this week at Hallwalls. ***

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OPENING THIS WEEK LONDON HAS FALLEN—Sequel to the grim action drama Olympus Has Fallen. Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo, and Angela Bassett. Directed by Babak Najafi (Easy Money 2). Flix (Dipson), Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria TOUCHED WITH FIRE—From Spike Lee’s production company, a drama about two people (Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby) who fall in love when they meet at a clinic where they are being treated for bipolar disorder. Co-starring Christine Lahti, Griffin Dunne, and Bruce Altman. Directed by Paul Dialo. Amherst (Dipson) A WAR—Oscar-nominated drama from Denmark about a military officer on duty in Afghanistan whose bad decision may affect his family at home. Starring Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, and Dar Salim. Directed by Tobias Lindholm. Reviewed this issue. Eastern Hills (Dipson)

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Another filmmaker still at work with her peak days even further in the past is Lina Wertmuller, who turns 90 this year. You wouldn’t know it to see her in the new documentary Behind the White Glasses, still looking pixieish in her white hair and the matching spectacles that she has affected for most of her career. (We first see her recording a new song about attending an orgy.) Wertmuller’s international peak was in the first half of the 1970s, when her films Swept Away, Seven Beauties, All Screwed Up, Love & Anarchy, and The Seduction of Mimi were worldwide hits and she became the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director. There’s plenty of information about the making of those movies, including interviews with her stars Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. Further appreciation is provided by Harvey Keitel and Martin Scorsese, and there’s entertaining footage from her early days as an assistant director to Fellini on 8 ½. It’s at the Screening Room. *** If Son of Saul hadn’t been the runaway favorite for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars, the award might well have gone to A War, the kind of solid drama that has brought Denmark several other Oscars in recent years. The first half of the film alternates between Claus (Pilou Asbæk), company commander of a peacekeeping unit stationed in Afghan, and his wife Maria (Tuva Novotny), trying to deal with the stresses of raising three young children with an absent husband. In some ways comparable to American Sniper, A War demonstrates how different a soldier’s day-today experiences are from wars past, thanks to cell phones that keep families in touch as well as to the uncertainties of duty in a region where the enemy is never easily identified. The film develops a second side after Claus is put into a difficult situation with no good option, and his choice puts him before a military court at home. The virtues of A War are also its biggest deficit: a leisureliness and inevitability that drain the effect from what is otherwise a solidly constructed drama. Opening P Friday at the Eastern Hills.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT—Heavily hyped comedy starring Tina Fey as war correspondent Kim Baker. With Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, and Josh Charles. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Focus). Flix (Dipson), Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

ALTERNATIVE CINEMA THE DAVID DANCE—Not all films made in Buffalo are horror movies, as this touching drama proves. Writer/director/star Don Scime is a native son who left for New York City 20 years ago but returned to shoot his debut film in Buffalo, Clarence, and Williamsville. He plays a late-night DJ who only comes alive when he’s on the air. When his sister asks for his help in adopting a child from Brazil, the scene is set for both of them to confront issues from their past that have produced the self-doubts that are impeding their futures. In a year of festival screenings, it has picked up several awards for Best Narrative Feature. Scime will be present to introduce the film and answer questions afterward. The screening is hosted by hosted by the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention and Embrace Western New York. Thu Mar 3, 7pm. Amherst DICK JOHNSON & TOMMYGUN VS. THE CANNIBAL COP—The title says it all for this locally produced action horror buddy-cop comedy. (Too bad they couldn’t get Peter O’Toole to play the title role.) Starring Sam Qualiana, Debbie Rochon, and John Renna. Directed by Renna and Chris Rados. Thu 7pm. Screening Room

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THE GRUMPY GHEY: TRUMP CARD BY CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY

POLITICIANS ARE FULL OF SHIT. They always

have been, and they always will be.

Some are more full of shit than others, this is true. Some are more likable than others—people you might want at your dinner table or fancy having a drink with. Others are less personable, but they earn our confidence by radiating their own. They seem suited for the gig despite not being anybody we’d want on the interior of our lives. This is an important distinction. Nobody ever said the president should be warm and fuzzy. I usually tune out the majority of what candidates say since they’re never going to implement most of it anyway. I’ll be the first to admit: My political apathy is longstanding and stems from self-absorption. I find my life is plenty for me to handle without anxiety-inducing, macro-picture stress. I am, however, a good judge of character. There have been people in my life whom I may not have always liked, but I’ve trusted them because I deemed them sound individuals with decent inner compasses. I have a very strong bullshit-meter, and I’m careful not to always let on when I know I’m being lied to. Depending on what’s at stake, it’s usually more interesting to see what the liar might do once under the false impression that they’ve gotten away with something. And sometimes it’s fun to watch someone squirm. But Donald Trump is more than I can take. He’s more than any of us should be able to take, and it’s frightening that his campaign has been let to advance this far. There’s way too much at stake for us to quietly stand by and see what he might do next. This isn’t a game, nor is it a TV show. Try as we might to make him one, Trump isn’t a fictional character.

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Therein lies a major part of the problem: We get our news in the same place that we play our games and watch our stories. The games have become intensely real-seeming, and the stories, well… On a grand scale, our culture’s perception has been poisoned by reality television. There was a time when most of the programming we sought on television was of a blatantly fictitious nature—sitcoms, soap operas, miniseries-dramas, and second-run movies. Sure, sometimes these things were based on real events, and PBS has always run shows with a historical focus. But game shows were probably the closest precursor to what we have now. The news has always been there, but it used to be a more clearly separated entity: a break in the story cycle for something decidedly real. Thirty years ago, there was a much clearer delineation between news broadcasting (“hard news”) and everything else. Now we have special interest news programming, news magazine shows, and true crime shows, all of which throw their own spin on the facts. And to top it off, reality television arrived to bulldoze right through whatever ability to discern the truth might have been left. At first, we were expected to swallow that reality television was, indeed, reality. But it quickly became apparent that even the more serious reality shows had partially scripted elements. And so our notions of reality were blown, albeit subtly at first. The important takeaway is this: We no longer know exactly which parts of what we view on television are real, what parts aren’t, what outcomes are predetermined, etc. “But it’s just television,” you correctly assert.

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Well, good for you and your discernment. You’re ahead of the game. But before you get assertive about your smarts, I’d like to make clear that smarts have little to do with the problem. It’s more about being mindful of the images and words being hurled at you while watching television (or streaming stuff, or however you do it), and that requires a diligence that most of us aren’t motivated to apply when we’re in front of the story box. When we go to the box, we’re looking to be entertained. “Tell me a story, I’m spent and I don’t want to think too hard,” we say. And the box does a pretty good job at hijacking our minds for a few hours. During that time, our brains go on automatic pilot. It’s not that we’re not thinking, but we’re in a spongy state of absorption, wherein we become unusually susceptible to false information. Fiction. Stories. It’s not that the things that transpire on reality shows are so believable. It’s more that the events occupy a free-floating space between what’s real and what isn’t. In this realm, nothing is fixed, nothing is certain. Contestant shows like Idol and Runway exacerbate the problem, since most of us still believe that the majority of what happens on those shows is real. (And maybe it is, maybe it isn’t—it doesn’t matter, since it’s the uncertainty that perpetuates the problem.) After more than a decade of taking all this drivel in, our judgment is permanently impaired. So, smarts can only save you if you’re the type of person who watches TV with a hypercritical eye and likes to ask questions. Sadly, that’s not the majority. From this media-generated pseudo-reality stew comes an election season like this one, and it’s more heavily reliant on misinformation and half-cocked attitudes generated on social media than any other before it. Those of us that consider ourselves as having smarts are blinking, incredulous. Is this really happening? Sure as hell is. Donald Trump reminds me a little of John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate—bumbling, self-contradictory, laughable. He was initially amusing in the most infuriating ways, but we’ve moved well beyond humor. The scariest realization about Trump’s campaign is that he isn’t nearly as dumb as we originally suspected. Whatever business savvy he may or may not

have, his understanding of how to leverage media has kept his campaign alive. Here’s a man who not only knows we’re confused, he seems to understand exactly how we’re confused and how he can best use that to his advantage. Our understanding of what makes a celebrity and what makes a politician are now forever crossed. This is the new hybrid. While Ronald Reagan makes an interesting study along these lines, it’s not really a fair comparison. Reagan came before the internet and had an established political career. As far as his stance on LGBT issues, Trump waffles. He’s been reluctant to say anything definitive, instead harping on Muslims and talk of building walls to keep out Mexicans. Ted Cruz, another brilliant specimen, would like us to believe that Trump’s our Republican LGBT ally, and perhaps it’s all relative. But if Cruz thinks that Trump has true “New York values,” maybe he should spend a little more time in the five boroughs. With respect to gay marriage, Trump tells us he’s evolving. Bully for you, Donald. It changes nothing. Trump could come vogueing out of the closet with bells on and a gigantic butt plug lodged in his backside and I still wouldn’t want him as president. Why on earth would we want a real estate mogul who’s a product of inherited wealth running our country? We’re talking about a man who owns casinos and beauty pageant brands—two gigantic warts on the nose of American culture—and who has parlayed his big-mouth antics into some convoluted notion of celebrity. He isn’t a leader, he’s a soundbite. We’ve been watching televised popularity contests for too long, and now the entire race is just a slightly more official looking reality show to many of us. Some people seem to view it as a game. But there’s much more at stake here than a high score or a recording contract with Clive Davis’s label. Snap out of it, America. Do we really want Kim Kardashian to run in 2020? Because that’s where we’re headed. If you think they’re rude to us in Europe now, just wait a few years—we won’t even be allowed in anymore. We’re on the cusp of becoming the laughingP stock of the Western world.

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Some of our neighborhood favorites near Niagara Street on the West Side...

1 PAWPRINTS BY PENNY / 1245 NIAGARA ST

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6 RESURGENCE BREWERY / 1250 NIAGARA ST A game-changer for Niagara Street when it opened in 2014, opening the corridor for nightlife, entertainment, and the odd literature event, like the “B3” reading and book release on March 9.

7 SANTASIERO’S / 1329 NIAGARA ST Neighborhood red sauce joint that harkens back to the West Side’s Italian history. Wine by the carafe and spaghetti by the full and half-plate; the eggplant parm and pasta fagioli spell comfort.

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Great beer from the good guys. The brewery is open Thursday-Saturday for straight-fromthe-source tappings and growlers to go. And complimentary kettle chips, because these guys aren’t messing around.

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The antithesis of a big-box gym, KC’s offers classes in boxing, MMA/wrestling, weightlifting, kettle bell training, Muay Thai, and yoga. The gym’s motto: Amor vincet timorem.

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Sugar City is anything you want it to be. This artist-run, all-ages, alcohol-free venue has some of the most eclectic programming in the city, ranging from standup comedy to punk, performance art to poetry.

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Arepas are a wonderful addition to our city’s culinary landscape: your choice of filling inside of a corn cake (a Colombian pita pocket, if you will). Ours was delicious roasted pork and had to weigh at least 2.5 pounds.

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Full-service pet care facility that offers grooming, daycare, and training for your furry friends. Located in the same building as the West Side Pet Clinic.

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